A randomized evaluation of matching grants to promote exports in Tunisia finds large effects on exports, but mainly of existing products to existing destinations, from Nadia Ali, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman, and @EricVerhoogen

Identifying the effect of subtitling in comparing English to math skills in European countries that do and do not use subtitles, from Frauke Baumeister, @EricHanushek, and @Woessmann

Bank industry opponents killed US regulators' 2023 "Basel Endgame" proposal that aimed to meet international standards and raise capital requirements. These two goals are separable, from Stephen G. Cecchetti, Jeremy C. Kress, and @MoneyBanking1

Researcher assumptions shape not just how experiments run—but what questions we ask. Outlining best practices for designing context-aware lab experiments in non-Western settings, from @sararlowes and @DrNathanNunn

Featured in the latest Digest: Federal Fiscal Aid to State and Local Governments and COVID-19 Mortality.

Subjects who play the risky but efficient action in a simple coordination game are more likely to cooperate in repeated games: susceptibility to strategic uncertainty matters for cooperation, from Pedro Dal Bó and Guillaume Fréchette

Better technology has made cars bigger, faster, and more efficient. Down-sizing lowers the cost of efficiency standards. Technology subsidies indirectly boost size and speed, from Asa Watten and Soren T. Anderson

Providing the first causal evidence on how occupational wage inequality undermines the labor movement, using three complementary research designs, from @BarbaraBiasi, @zoebcullen, Julia H. Gilman, and @ninaroussille

In a field experiment with new hires at an automobile manufacturing firm in China, both signing bonuses and monitoring intensity were randomly varied, from Jing Cai, Sai Luo, and Shing-Yi Wang

Analyzing 630k paintings since 1400 to show how art complements development indicators by revealing sentiments about living standards, uncertainty, and inequality, from Clément Gorin, @StephanHeblich, and Yanos Zylberberg

Presenting firewood prices for the US from 1700 to 2010. Prior research underestimated the value of this fuel which affects estimates of growth and productivity, from Nicholas Z. Muller

In Italy, a major tax credit favored middle earners and boosted votes for incumbents, revealing a political-economy tradeoff, from @silviavannutell

Fuzzy regression discontinuity designs suffer from a power asymmetry in t-tests—similar to 2SLS—making them unreliable for detecting true negative effects, so significance should be assessed using the intent-to-treat regression instead, from Kaliski, Keane, and Neal

The 1942 Exclusion Act removed high-skilled farmers of Japanese ancestry near the West Coast. This significantly reduced long-run growth of agriculture in the affected counties, from Peter Zhixian Lin and @giov_peri

A growing body of research suggests reproductive health care has intergenerational effects on the well-being of children, from @martha_j_bailey

Adoption of international accounting standards helps exporting firms to experience less unfavorable antidumping rulings, from Stephen Teng. Sun, Shang-Jin Wei, and Jin Xie

Developing a quantitative New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with monopolistic banks to study the macroeconomic effects of introducing a central bank digital currency, from @pascalpaul, Mauricio Ulate, and @jcynthiawu

Testing whether mergers between nursing home chains and independent facilities affect quality of care using facility-level data from 1999–2019, from @Pinka_Chat, Chun-Yu Ho, and Wenqing Li

Providing a general characterization of all feedback and heterogeneity robust moment conditions for nonlinear panel data models and presenting constructive methods to derive feasible moment-based estimators for specific models, from Bonhomme, Dano, and Graham

Common ownership has risen globally since 2005, especially among large firms, driven by the broad and overlapping portfolios of the Big Three (BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street) asset management firms, from Miguel Antón, @florianederer, @mireiagine, and Guillermo